So, you’ve decided that you want to stop smoking regular cigarettes and would like to switch to electronic cigarettes. But with the plethora of ecigs being touted on the market today, it can be difficult to choose the brand that’s right for you.

And you want to get it right first time because you don’t want to be put off ecigs for life, right? You genuinely want them to be a safer replacement for the health-destroying tobacco you are currently addicted to – and perhaps one day to be free from nicotine completely.

At The Stop Smoking College, we have seen some good preliminary results from smokers that have replaced tobacco with ecigs. Of course, some people didn’t like them and went back to smoking, however more than half of our test group are either still smoking ecigs or have stopped smoking completely six months after we ran our tests.

Our ecig testing panel (consisting of 5 regular smokers and 1 ecig smoker) have reviewed several electronic cigarettes, however we have only published our reviews of the ecigs that performed well. Our reviews are brutally honest and after writing them up and showing them to the vendors, some brands requested that we did not publish them, which we respectfully agreed to. So, you’ll only find good reviews here at the present time.

THE BEST TASTING E-CIGARETTE
This award goes to the Liberro Realis Starter Pack

Liberro Realis Starter Kit

And in 2nd place, the Smoke Relief Deluxe Starter Kit.

SmokeRelief Start Kit

THE BEST VALUE E-GIGARETTEFor best value, check out the Smoke Relief Mini Starter Kit

Stoptober is a campaign devised by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), which urges smokers to kick their habit during the month of October (click here for their website).

It does this by providing several resources to help a smoker become smoke-free and is based on the fact that anyone that stops smoking for 28 days is five times more likely to stay stopped. And it has had a good success rate with 160’000 smokers successfully completing Stoptober in 2012.

If you want to reap the benefits of becoming smoke-free and are planning to abstain from tobacco on the first of October, sign up with The Stop Smoking College (it’s totally free) and get access to tools and advice that are guaranteed to help you achieve your goals.

And, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me via dan@stopsmokingcollege.com.

Apologies for the delay in getting the points totted up for March’s game of Distractions! but we’re finally ready to announce the winner(s).

But first, we’d like to announce March’s Journal of the Month Award, which goes to SnoreLack. Despite some colourful language, this diary is an interesting and honest account of the frustrations and irritations that smoking cessation can cause for some people. Well worth a read (although you should maybe give it a miss if you are offended by strong language).

So, congratulations SnoreLack. You get an extra 100 points added onto you’re Distractions! score for the month of March.

Unfortunately, this wasn’t quite enough to take first place, which goes to Korrin, however the team here have decided to award the prize of a free copy of The Stop Smoking College Handbook to both Snorelack and Korrin.

We’ll be emailing both winners to tell them about their prize imminently. Well done everybody that entered and get ready for another month of Distractions!, which will begin soon…